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Gunpowder flask with figures in Portuguese dress

  • Details

    Associated place
    Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    late 17th century - early 18th century
    Material and technique
    wood, covered in black lacquer, with hiramaki-e and takamaki-e lacquer decoration; copper spout
    Dimensions
    15.7 x 13 x 6.5 cm max. (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    wood,
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased with the assistance of the Friends of the Ashmolean Museum, 1983.
    Accession no.
    EA1983.243
  • Further reading

    Impey, Oliver, and Christiaan Jörg, Japanese Export Lacquer 1580-1850 (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2005), no. 128, p. 82, illus. p. 82

    Piper, David, and Christopher White, Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum: An Illustrated Souvenir of the Collections, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1995), no. 76 on p. 76, illus. p. 76 fig. 76

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 May 2006-23 December 2008, Treasures: Antiquities, Eastern Art, Coins, and Casts: Exhibition Guide, Rune Frederiksen, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2006), no. 145 on p. 52, illus. p. 52

Glossary (3)

hiramaki-e, lacquer, takamaki-e

Location

    • Second floor | Room 37 | Japan

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